The bottle is then riddled, so that the lees settles in the neck of the wine bottle...
Manual riddling is still done for Prestige Cuvées in Champagne... mechanised riddling equipment (a gyropalette) is used instead.
(Wikipedia)

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How do you get this kind of stuff? I've been playing around with nonsense Russian syllables, but haven't gotten much of interest.

Also I am intrigued by the thought of Mud Mud - Everyday Evening Girls.

Also too,

"Easy going crazy thoroughly as long as you can not forget"

CAN RELATE

Oh, and I couldn't sleep all last night and I still can't sleep and I read like three blog posts over at Pharyngula thinking it was Riddled I just thought you should know. Although I'm sure you didn't like The Bell Curve any more than PZ or I.

For some reason the Japanese syllabaries send Google Translate into a tail-spin when it encounters a long enough string of the same symbol. Also good results from claiming that the repeated syllables are in Hindu.If you include diacriticals, the Translate "Detect language" option sometimes picks Romanian or Finnish. Hilarity results.

I read like three blog posts over at Pharyngula thinking it was Riddled I just thought you should know. That's very flattering. Yes, everyone involved in 'The Bell Curve' needs to be towed out to sea and sunk by naval gunfire.

I recently had a Lyme Disease ("Actual Lyme Disease") scare, but it turned out I had a massive ear infection that went untreated for nearly two weeks because everyone was very sure I had Lyme and it takes that long for a Western Blot to come back, apparently. My increasing fever is the only thing that allowed me to get an antibiotic before the test results came back. Anyway! I am feeling right as the mail (federal, not Daily) now, and in a convenient interstice between thunderstorms I thought I would bring you the following.

I put "すまあと" (suma-ato) into Google Translate in a pyramid configuration (this is not, strictly speaking, how one would render "smut" in Japanese phonetically; it would actually be "スマーット" (sumaatto), probably, but those results were less comical). This is not so magnificent as many of the things you've posted here at Riddled, but something is often better than nothing, so: